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MinkyBoodle wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2019 1:35 am
Oh no! Wish you could have found the time to finish, but I'm happy you will still upload it once you're finished. Reading everybody's ideas and execution has been my favorite part of this whole thing.

Good luck to everybody who is participating. Here's hoping we have enough adventures and good content to make The Dark Temple a print candidate down the line.

Solomoriah wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2019 3:10 pm You needn't worry. The Dark Temple will be CS2, and will definitely be in print. The second contest, The Pit, did not yield a "usable" dungeon, and I blame myself for how I designed the contest; Dark Temple went back to the same model as Castle by the Sea, which was very successful (in my opinion, of course).

A golden tripod sits on a table behind him, which he periodically consults as he proceeds with his writing.

A man with long black hair stares intently into a burning golden tripod.

Solomoriah wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 11:11 pm Question for Sean: I'm reading through "Three Days" and I have to say, WOW. But one thing I'm not seeing in my head is the tripod. What, exactly, is this tripod? The name implies three legs, but says nothing about what's on top of it; one scene depicting it with its original owner says:

A golden tripod sits on a table behind him, which he periodically consults as he proceeds with his writing.

while another says:

A man with long black hair stares intently into a burning golden tripod.

I'm sorry, I'm very confused. The first quote seems to indicate it's an instrument of some sort, or perhaps it holds a book; the second makes it sound like a brazier. What am I supposed to be imagining here?

Solomoriah wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 10:28 am Okay, so I was right to see it as a brazier. (Note to self... might need to ask an artist or two to do drawings of all the "special" items from this adventure.) What does it mean that he "consults" it?

AlMan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 7:42 pm

Solomoriah wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 10:28 am Okay, so I was right to see it as a brazier. (Note to self... might need to ask an artist or two to do drawings of all the "special" items from this adventure.) What does it mean that he "consults" it?

I remember watching a documentary about Nostradamus and a dramatization showed him looking into a bowl of something that hung from a tripod over a small fire (like a bunson burner) the tripod was about two foot high. There were CGI images of a nuke going off and then President Kennedy shown above the bowl, like the bowl was showing Nostradamus images of future events. When I read the module, that is the picture I imagined.

Here is a picture of what I remember under the "Satan's Prophet..." heading. When he looks into the bowl, he would be "consulting" the tripod.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q ... 7638854648

Solomoriah wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2019 3:10 pm You needn't worry. The Dark Temple will be CS2, and will definitely be in print. The second contest, The Pit, did not yield a "usable" dungeon, and I blame myself for how I designed the contest; Dark Temple went back to the same model as Castle by the Sea, which was very successful (in my opinion, of course).